Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott

About the Movie

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination they must attempt a harrowing escape.

Top Critics' Reviews

Rotten: Yet director Ridley Scott -- who birthed the original nearly 40 years ago as well as that last film -- plunges back into the latter's mythology, with equally uninspired and perhaps more blatantly derivative results. – Brian Lowry, CNN.com, May 18, 2017

Fresh: A shamelessly high-minded, Byron-and-Shelley-quoting existential inquiry into the origin of three species and the nature of belief that goes slumming in genre territory just enough to get itself greenlit. – Chris Klimek, NPR, May 18, 2017

Fresh: Peel away the big budget genre film's veneer of Western Civ for Dummies (Michelangelo, Wagner, Byron and Shelley) and what you have is rather conventional Lego blocks of sci-fi horror. – Thelma Adams, New York Observer, May 19, 2017

Customer Reviews

Not very brave formula movie that could have been.

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bretmt

Great effects, furthers the prequil franchise but suffers tremendously from the irrational behavior and unbelievability in the script. It leaves one to wornder if this saw a real test audience or even better the story itself was read by anyone but the production team. It is: here is your story, here are your sterotype idiots, now pay me. Could be the last one for awhile. Sad. Had been looking forward to it.

Best Alien Prequel Yet!

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Anthoni

What can I say more? Another great Alien film from director Ridley Scott!